title: [The psychosocial aspects of female patients with genital cancer].
abstract: Revealing a diagnosis as cancer, usually generates various emotional and psychosocial response in the patients: anxiety, negation of reality, passivity and generalized state of shock and anguish; long term projects and personal responsibilities are annihilated, the image of death grows enormously. Genital cancer women patients also exhibits sexual problems which can seriously complicate the psychic representation of disease and impair family life. Our study comprised 20 women patients who were hospitalized, with genital cancer diagnosis (ovarian cancer, neoplasms of the cervix and of the endometrium); by anamnesis and further discussions we tried to establish the main elements which generated different psychologic reactions. The perception of the reality of the diagnosis was proved to depend on age, personality type, doctor-patient and family-patient relationship. Each stage of disease and each treatment applied generates individual psychologic reaction which can be alleviated by communication between doctor and patients, by a patient adapted language. Complexity of psychological and sometimes psychic reactions of such patients requires that a psycho-oncologist be included in the complex oncologic treatment team; deeper knowledge of the problems and employment of individual or group therapy (the patient's family included) may lead to better psychic response to the malady.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Radiologie Oncologie, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr. T. Popa, Iaşi.
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Buiuc
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011593:Psychology, Social
vernacular_title: Aspecte psihosociale la bolnavele cu cancer genital.